No, of course it isn't, but thats beside the point.
Ever since Obama was inagurated and first occupied the Oval Office his leadership has been fraught with various conservative, Republican or deep southern controversy. If it wasn't about his birth, it was about his policies.
The purpose of the creation of a state based health system is to bring the insanely expensive and time-consuming current health system in America in to line with the systems in other Western countries like Australia and Canada. In fact the American system of health is
so horrendous you can get cheaper, better health care in Cuba, or Venezuela.
The simple fact is that the current system is in-ordinantly expensive and slow and compared to systems in countries with far less robust economys, disgustingly ineffective.
To take an example, I'm currently a resident of Australia, we have a state based health-care system known as Medicare, you can join the Ambulance Association for a minor fee each year you can completely avoid paying ambulance travel fees, when I was seriously injured in 2004 during a skiing accident and was airlifted back to Melbourne to undergo CT scans of my upper spine and neck the fee would have been in excess of $5000, yet because of my membership in the Ambulance Association and my public health care, not only did I not pay for the transport I also was re-imbursed for the following medical treatment for the damage to my body.
Compare this to my experience in America a year earlier, I broke my leg in a skiiing accident in Beaver Creek, Colorado. I was picked up by Ski Patrol, loaded into an ambulance and taken to the medical center. My leg was set and two xrays were taken to determine it was set correctly before i was discharged with some pain-killers.
Total cost?
In excess of $8000, which luckily was covered by my travel insurance, althought they no longer agree to cover me overseas >.<
If either of the above stories were to occur to an American citizen on American soil who had no private health care, they would have to pay the costs immediatly, and if surgury was required but was not urgent, they would have to pay
up-front.
This is why Obama wants and needs to fix the US health care system, this isn't a socialist/nazi/communist plan. Although it has some socialist influence it is
not a bad thing, infact it is a very good thing, socialised health-care works as demonstrated in far less capable nations around the globe.
And for those arguing that the government cannot compete with private business, again look at your fellow democratic and capitalist nations to see it in action. In Australia the government ran telecommunications for decades, it also runs our train and tram systems. Not only do these organisations run as government bodies, or had untill being privatised, they were very competitve with private business, and greatly encouraged market growth and the lowering of prices in general.
Without a doubt Obamacare has very little wrong with it, if you are idiotic enough to listen to the conservative and Republican propoganda about its supposed "Nazism" then I guess I have only one response for you.
To quote Congressman Barney Frank "Trying to have a conversation with you would be like arguing with a dining room table."
Until next time,
Jesse
